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UK
/pˈɔɪnjənt/
]
[ US /ˈpɔɪnjənt/ ]
[ US /ˈpɔɪnjənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
poignant anxiety -
arousing affect
his gratitude was simple and touching
the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene
poignant grief cannot endure forever
How To Use poignant In A Sentence
- Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
- A truly poignant object is the patinated bronze sheet with names of Olympic champions inscribed on it from the first century B.C. to A.D. 385, after which the Olympics were outlawed. Transformational Objects
- The truly poignant moments were those that followed. Times, Sunday Times
- Poignantly stated and played, the two guitarists spread out and cover the space.
- The film is not attempting poignant comments on reality - it aims at grace and good humour.
- I only played three carefully considered notes with intuitive regard to choice of rhythm, tempo, dynamics - using a poignant interval, the minor sixth resolving to the perfect fifth.
- Her tragic death, poignantly captured on grainy mobile telephone footage, has flashed around the world. Times, Sunday Times
- Jewish life is poignantly described in Wiesel's journal, "The Jews of Silence".
- It is especially poignant that he died on the day before the wedding.
- The poignant note lay in a bed of roses on an ivory white casket that featured two joker playing cards. The Sun